Faux Real
Artist list:
Regina Agu
Ann Wood
Stephanie Hamblin
Hillaree Hamblin
Xochi Solis
Alika Herreshoff
Sara Madandar
Shalena White
Philip Harrell
Ryan Hawk
Laurel Shear
Everest Pipkin
Elizabeth Chiles
Lauren Moya Ford
John Sparagana
Cameron Coffman
Lee Piechocki
Robert Thomas Mullen
Britt Thomas
Mohammed Al Shammarey
Abhidnya Ghuge
Geoff Hippenstiel
Seth Alverson
Katie M. Westmoreland
Chantal Wnuk
Tarina Frank
Delaney Smith
Evelyn Putska
David Politzer
Cobra McVey
An exhibition proposal by Jade Abner, Kenneth Franco, and Sophia Gonzalez.
❁ 𝕗𝕒𝕦𝕩 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝 ❁ an online exhibition of natural subjects that echo various perceptions of what is artificial and what is real
We virtually curated this show together ~for fun~ in 2015 & we‘re finally bringing our idea to light ❁
Hope you enjoy ❁
Ann Wood
Trophy, 2018
Ann Wood, My Mother’s Deathbed, 2018
Abhidnya Ghuge
Abhidnya Ghuge is a multidisciplinary installation artist using printmaking techniques on paper plates to create site-responsive installations. Beginning with a birch wood panel that she carves to create the woodblock, Ghuge prints thousands of paper plates with it and then uses them to transform the space allowing the viewer to walk through and into the installation. Originally from India, a dermatologist by pervious profession, Abhidnya draws inspiration from Indian henna designs, the microscopic and macroscopic world (referencing her previous medical profession) and current cultural landscape of America. Her work celebrates patterns, organic forms and allows for a rich sensory and spatial experience. Currently teaching as an Adjunct Instructor at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Tyler, Ghuge has shown her work in solo and group shows in New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin. She has public and private collections in UK, USA and India.
Geoff Hippenstiel
Stephanie Hamblin
Katie M. Westmoreland
Visiting Landscapes A, B, and C
2018
beeswax, muslin fabric, paracord, thread, elm wood, raw liquid photographic emulsion
installation dimensions variable, each panel measures 85 x 24 inches
Chantal Wnuk
“Paintings and sculptures about forcing things together, the ocean, and being in love…I guess.”
Born in Houston, TX
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
Robert Thomas Mullen
John Sparagana
Breather #4, 2016. Oil on linen over wood panel, 36 x 24 in. / 91.5 x 61 cm.
JOHN SPARAGANA (b. 1958, USA)
John Sparagana is the Grace Christian Vietti Chair in Visual Arts, and Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. His work has been shown internationally, most recently with exhibitions in Berlin, Chicago, Houston, New York, and Zürich, and is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others
Regina Agu
Regina Agu’s work is conceptually oriented towards language, history, and representation. She addresses these as they coalesce in contemporary ideas around landscape. Her practice involves research and explorations of “site,” including histories and theories of landscape photography, architecture, the built environment, the landscape, environmental justice, and spatial politics – particularly their intersections around communities of color.
Mohammed al Shammarey
A self-taught artist, Al Shammerey began exhibiting his work at his studio in the late 1980s / His work ranges from painting, photography, video, sculpture, and book art has been presented in solo exhibitions across the world, including at the French Cultural Centre-Iraq, Al-Balqa Open Gallery-Jordan, Orfali Gallery-Jordan, Dar Al-Anda Gallery-Jordan, FA Gallery-Kuwait and Simeen Farhat at Anya Tish Gallery-Houston, USA / In 2013 he exhibited alongside Azar Emdadi at Tabari Artspace, Dubai / He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennales, including the 9th Cairo International Biennale, the Frankfurt International Book Fair, the Alexandria Library, Egypt, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA, and at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA / He is also a member of the UNESCO International Association for Plastic Arts the Iraqi Artist Association / In 2004 he received an award from the Festival of Mediterranean People, Bisceglie, Italy, and in 2003, the prize of Arab Pioneers from the Arab Pioneers Festival under the patronage of the Arab League.
Britt Thomas
Tarina Frank
Tarina Frank was born on a sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico and lived aboard the boat for part of her childhood. She earned her BFA in Metalsmithing at the University of Texas and earned her MFA in Jewelry at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work is a blend between fine art and craft, wearable and sculpture. Her exploration of life vests as jewelry have allowed her to combine her love for sewing, metalsmithing and painting into unique wearable artworks. This is the first time her new work will be shown in the United States.
Seth Alverson
Seth Alverson is an American painter. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Houston, in 2002 and his Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. Alverson’s had three solo exhibitions with Art Palace. He has also exhibited his work in group exhibitions, including Exit Strategy, White Box Gallery, New York; Death of a Propane Salesman, Fort Worth Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX (2009); Group Show, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (2009); 30th Anniversary, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2009); Where Are We Going?, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2008); Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston TX (2008); The Siren’s Song, Arthouse at Jones Center, Austin, TX (2007) and New Texas Painting, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (2006).
More about his paintings here.
Press: Houston Artist, Seth Alverson Opens Up About Twisted Nightmares
Lee Piechocki
Evelyn Putska
Delaney Smith
Through the Woods, 2016, cotton, nylon, steel, 22 x 44 x 5 inches
Delaney Smith is a visual artist working primarily with paper and bookmaking to create sculptures and interactive books. With a focus on aligning process and inherent qualities of material, she explores the ideas of accumulation and transformation through repetition. Her interactive books develop as the viewer alters the pages, creating a unique story of marks and questioning expectations of how one should approach a book.
Delaney received her BFA in Graphic Communications from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2007 and her MFA in Fibers from the University of North Texas in 2013. Delaney was an artist-in-residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in 2013-14. At the beginning of 2015, she participated in Pentaculum, a week long forum at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She is currently working as an artist and educator on the island in Marshall, NC.
David Politzer
David Politzer enjoys hamburgers, hiking with his family and talking about interesting stuff like TV shows or politics.
He makes artworks about the awkward relationships we have when we communicate using cameras, phones, computers, etc. Not just between people, also between people and the natural world.
Politzer was born in Washington DC, earned an MFA from Syracuse University and a BS from Skidmore College. His solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Artsoace (NC), Artspace (CT), Real Art Ways (CT), Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Photography, Galveston Art Center and Western Georgia University. He is the recipient of the 2011 Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography. Group show and screening venues include the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Masur Museum (LA), NUTUREArt (NY) Threewalls (IL) the Soap Factory (MN), Southern Exposure (CA), Vox Populi (PA), the Syracuse International Film Festival, SPACES (OH), video_dumbo (NY) and Gallery Korea (NY). Politzer was artist in residence at Yaddo, the Skowhegan School, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Roswell Artist in Residence, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Lawndale Art Center, Artspace (NC) and Grand Central Art Center. He lives in Houston, TX with his wife and daughter. He’s also Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston.
Cobra Mcvey
“Cobra McVey uses found objects and recycled synthetic materials in combination with traditional art making techniques to create futuristic environments that reference contemporary culture. She is the lead singer and guitarist for Winelord, a female punk rock trio hatched from the same B-movie aesthetic that influences her visual art. She is also co-founder, costume maker, and a major dancer of The Bar-B-Que Gang Dance Troupe, an enterprise that combines design and performance. McVey received an MFA from the University of Georgia in 2012 and has been an Artist-in-Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Vermont Studio Center and Houston’s Post-Studio Projects and Lawndale Art Center. She has lived in Massachusetts, Georgia and Arizona, but now considers Texas home. Her work has been screened at festivals and exhibited nationally. Winelord’s album, III, is available online and at record stores across the United States.” - Artist’s website
Playmates
Shoulder Pads On Vacation
Alika Herreshoff
Elizabeth Chiles
Figs from Thistles, no. 13 (2013), shown in part at Fotofest and Houston Center for Photography in 2013/14 as part of Moving/Still, curated by Kerry Inman.
“Exploring dense pockets of flora at close range, Elizabeth Chiles produces images of the various landscapes that she encounters, which become abstract meditations on the human perception surrounding nature.” – Aperture Foundation
Images: Installation view, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, 2016
PRESS:
Sightline Magazine: Weaving light: In her newest photographic work, Elizabeth Chiles embraces serenity
Austin Chronicle: Review of “Weave
Xochi Solis
Pictured above: Looking for the magic, 2016
Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, and found images on paper
8 x 6 inches ✺
Installation shot from "Flatlander", May 21 – September 13, 2015
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO
Photography by Richard A. Peterson, courtesy of Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
“Xochi Solis (b. 1981) is an Austin, TX based artist sharing her studio time between Texas and Mexico. Her works include multilayered, collaged paintings constructed of paint, hand-dyed paper, vinyl, plastics, and images from found books and magazines. Solis considers the repeated act of layering a meditation on color, texture, and shape all leading to a greater awareness of the visual intricacies found in her immediate environment, both natural and cultural. During the summer of 2018, she was an invited artist of Object Limited to participate in a pilot residency program in Bisbee, AZ. In 2016, she was artist-in-residence at Pele Prints in St. Louis, MO, completing a series of monoprints that combined her painting and collage methods with a variety of printmaking techniques. As a resident artist in 2013 at Arquetopia in Oaxaca, MX, she learned to work with natural pigments and paper dying. Solis is one of 30 artists featured in the book Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste, Mash Up and Transform (Chronicle Books, 2014) and will be featured in the forthcoming book A BIG IMPORTANT ART BOOK (NOW WITH WOMEN): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--and Projects to Help You Become One (Running Press, 2018).
Recent exhibitions include: Shaped by Subtraction, BOX 13 Artspace in Houston, TX (2017); Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2017); We must build as if the sand were stone, South Texas College Library Gallery, McAllen, TX (2016); Rivers of our Vision, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX (2013); Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City, NY; Flatlander, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (2015); New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2008). In addition to her studio practice, she is on the Programming Committee of #bbatx and manages and spins records with the Austin chapter of Chulita Vinyl Club.”
Reach her at: xochisolis.com
Find her on Pinterest and Instagram
For original work visit Uprise Art and LEIF Shop
I sing the praise of never change, 2017
Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, Dura-lar film, digitally printed vinyl, colored paper, and found images on illustration board
20 x 15 inches
Pedaling through the lost currents, 2016
Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images on illustration board
10 x 8 inches
The stars that shine, the stars that shrink, 2015
Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images on museum board
7 x 5 inches
Help me roll away this stone, 2015
Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, and found images on museum board
8 x 6 inches
Cameron Coffman
Photos courtesy of Conflict of TX.
Cameron Coffman (b. Austin, TX 1991 ) received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014, attended Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program in 2015, and is a MFA candidate (2018) at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has participated in Ox-Bow School of Art, Grin City Collective Residency, and the Art Students League of New York.
Photo courtesy of UCLA
Shalena White
Elevated Gem, 2012, Red brass, basswood and earth
“I aim to see my existence from an enlightened viewpoint. Through mindful attention, one can recognize the sacred nature of even the most mundane things. My creative process begins with reverence for materials discovered in the environment such as botanical seeds, earth and rocks.
Photo courtesy of James Scheuren
I envision every part of the formation of these natural objects . They are embedded with precious information about their physical origins and cultural history. Digging my hands into the soil and gathering remnants of nature allows an exploration of the material’s potential that is reframed through my studio practice. This investigation stems from my intuitive need to reconnect with nature in a technology-based culture that feels so far removed from it.
These works of adornment, installation and sculpture incorporate the elegant visual language of metalsmithing with organic elements. Unearthing remnants from the landscape and reframing them as intricate works of art is a method of highlighting raw beauty often overlooked in our environment.
This work explores my sense of intrigue about the extraordinary potential of mundane raw materials and re-evaluates conventional notions of preciousness.” - Shalena White
Elemental Transmutation, 2014, Wax, 48” x 48” x 4"
Photographer: James Scheuren
Engagement Ring Series, 2012, Red brass, powdercoat, 18 k gold leaf, fine silver leaf, paper, glue, pyrite, earth gathered from sites in NC and TX, Each ring: 3.5" x 3" x 3"
Sara Madandar
Absence of bodies, 2012, Collection: Something Left Behind
“Sara Madandar is a US based artist from Iran. She was born in Tehran. She got her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works in painting, sculpture,video and performance. Her work is mostly about the relationship of the human to their bodies and covers. She materializes the issues of existing in an in-between space through construction and deconstruction of the canvas. Her work evokes a sensation out of destruction and touches on the cultural displacements of corporeality. Her sculptures are objects related to the human body and are in the actual size of the body. Her video, video installations, and performances are influenced by her emigration and comparison between two cultures. She uses different elements to transmit her concepts such as patterns, hair as lines, women’s body and etc.” - Artist’s website
Philip Harrell
“Philip Harrell was born and raised in Dallas, moved to Austin to study fine arts at the University of Texas, and graduated in 2011. Since then, he has shown work here and there, and kept trucking along.” - Farewell Books
His new stuff is dope too: 2018 + Soundcloud
Ryan Hawk
From the "GAK Portraits" series
2015 - Ongoing
Laurel Shear
Photo above courtesy of Fort Gansevoort Gallery
About Nothing and Everything All At Once, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches
